derren brown predicts lottery numbers

Did anyone here just see derren brown predict five of six lottery numbers live on channel 4

I am sitting here, mouth agape. he is a god among men

Fuck tonight, i wanna see fridays show now to see how the hell he did it, something odd going on with it, he read 2,400,000 as 2000 twice.

Even though it's just gonna be some cunning shenanigans that we won't actually be able to use to make us millions it still made bloody good TV !

I hate derren brown. I would like to smack his smug wizardy face with a wet fish!

lol ..quickly check his wiki page .. before they mod it ..

edit - ahh too late ..

i know someone who was there tonight, havn't seen it yet, hopefully on 4od soon...

i once went on a teachers end of term drinking session in Bath whith a PE teacher that looked ALOT like darren brown.

this quote from where he was asked about his russian roulette stunt pretty much sums up what we should think about anything he does ...

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Brown himself defended the programme, saying, "It probably sounds odd. But as a magic-related performer, to have that even being asked: Was it real? Was it not real? That lifts it to a level that I'm very comfortable with. What's left is the fact that it was a terrific piece of television."

terrifically boring piece of television imO

take THAT!!

is this the guy who gave simon pegg a bike or whatever

his book is enjoyable, and surprisingly weighty for a 'celebrity' book

fucking love derren. although i'd be wary he'd try to hypno-bum me in person

i would let him hypno-bum me, he is fucking fit.

and he got all 6 right y0

he can't have predicted the numbers so I can only assume he somehow arranged for his prediction balls in his studio that he 'couldn't show us' to be changed as the numbers were being drawn. I don't think that would be too hard to do.

how was this lotto thing set up? he just called out the numbers as they were being drawn?

Didn't see it, but I'll wildly speculate that the BBC has a slight delay that he could exploit or that he used some tele-trickery to pick every number and simply edit them together in the right order as they came out.

  On 9/10/2009 at 1:10 AM, Fred McGriff said:

how was this lotto thing set up? he just called out the numbers as they were being drawn?

Here it is (hopefully it'll work in your country):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMIzR6GNAXw

And it was indeed a live link to the other channel (well milliseconds out anyway) as we had two TV sets in the room showing each channel.

maybe he is the devil

wtf pretty cool

ALAN DEDICOAT

VOICE OF THE BALLS

WTF

Clearly its impossible to predict the lottery numbers ... so ...

Although the white balls to the left of the screen appear to be in shot all of the time, I guess the only way this could be done is with some sort of camera trick. e.g. freeze the left hand side of the screen to a static image, while someone creeps on and sticks the correct balls in the holder. There is a little bit of camera-shake to contend with, but thats not much of a problem these days.

camera trickery isn't what derren does... i dunno how but probably not camera trickery

he did say it took him a year to do (but he always says shit like that)

But the thing is, as he's going to explain it on Friday (and that apparently we'll be able to try it ourselves) I doubt the explanation is going to be - get yourself a really good dual camera setup, buy some motion tracking software and bob's your uncle....

Oh Derren with your mysteries and tricksies.

I just have this mental image of whoever owns / runs the lottery watching the clip again and again whilst gently murmuring "hooolleeee shit"

Maybe it took him a year to discover that the National Lottery is rigged.

It's too improbable. The camera shake is almost certainly intentional to make us believe that nothing could possibly be going on with the balls. There's no other reason why they wouldn't use a tripod.*

I'm interested though, sadly I'll miss Friday's show too. So if everyone ends up winning the Saturday lottery I'm going to be fucking livid.

* Fuck tripods even. Channel 4 use those massive camera suits with a pendulum weight that let the camera-man walk with minimal shaking.